ive got2 kittens that wont eat dry catfood they will olny eat can catfood how can i get them to eat dry food?

Answer 1

mix the dry with the wet

Answer 2

Frist you should take the pup to the vet, and myabe while waiting to get into the vets office you should keep your pup seperated from the rest of the littermates, and clean the pen, if at all possible bleaching the area (with dog and pups somewhere else until it is dry and safe for them to return). Disinfecting with bleach will kill any parvo virus, however, if your pup has been with it's littermates for the whole time it's been sick and parvo is the problem, it's likely they will all get it. If you think that the temperature outside is what is causing the problems, put the puppy into a cooler place wait a while, see if this helps, if the pup looks a bit more active, try again to feed it. Try something a little tastier than purina or iams, go to a pet food store and get a can of Merrick's, I have a picky dog and can always get her to eat the Merrick's, they have puppy food in cans, just something to try. IF the pup hasn't been drinking water, keep trying a young pup can die of dehydration quickly, and is a severe complication of parvo virus. Now, it is possible that heat is the problem, dogs have unfortunately been dying of dehydration, and heat stroke, in the recent heat wave. I still strongly reccommend that this pup gets taken to the vet, especially if You are very concerned. I certainly feel at the least that he needs to be rehydrated, which might involve an I.V and possibly an overnight stay. When you call the vets office, let them know how concerned you are, and that you feel it's urgent. It's best to get this taken care of quickly, your pup has a much better chance of survival the faster you act. Good luck!

Answer 3

Mix some of the canned cat food in with some dry cat food, or try adding warm water to the dry cat food to make it soft. Eventually, you can slowly start increasing the amount of dry food and decreasing the amount of canned food and they will eventually end up eating the dry food. Also, make sure the kittens are old enough to eat the dry food - if they are only a couple of months old the pieces of dry food are too big for them to eat.

Answer 4

Mix in a little dry food with the canned stuff. See if they'll eat it then. After a while of doing this, add more dry food and less canned food. It's like weaning, kinda... Remember that kittens have sensitive teeth at first, canned food may feel soft to their baby teeth.
Or mix in water with the dry food.

Answer 5

How hard is the dry food? If it is really hard, it may be just to hard for them. My indoor kitty found she liked Purina for indoor cats (comes in a green bag). Its hard food but not as hard as some others. She has tiny little sharp teeth and that really hard stuff was not good on. When I would let her and other cats share the occasional can of wet food, she would act staved! Now she eats normally because her little teeth can break up the kibble easier. You might give it a try.

Answer 6

When i was 5 I wouldn't eat cat food. So my father duct taped me to the floor of a closet with nothing but a bowl of cat food in the room. After 4 days not only was the cat food good I started to believe i was a cat. In fact i now know over 30 different cat languages the most interesting a Canadian dialect. I love my father he sure knew how to train cats. In fact when i was 7 i won best in show for Fargo ND. So that's what i would do tape the cats down after they no longer know who they are they ll eat anything and do anything but that's another story.

Answer 7

Besides mixing the dry and the wet, try putting warm water in the dry. It makes the dry food all soggy and easier for them to eat. Sometimes mixing it with just wet food doesn't make it soggy enough for them and you need to do it with the water. It also depends on how old they are, you may be trying to wean them way to early.
Worst case scenario they are just spoiled and won't eat the dry.

Answer 8

Animals have preferences to! You shouldn't make them eat anything that they don't like, but if you must force them to eat dry food you should mix their wet and dry food together and gradually decrease the amount of wet food so that eventually there will only be dry food.

Answer 9

If they are over 6 weeks old slowly start mixing the dry food in with the soft adding a little more dry and a little less soft everyday till you arent feeding them the soft food anymore..

Answer 10

Have you tried to mix the two together? What about Treats Do you gives hard or soft treats Try mixing the treat in the hard food, but make sure you show the cat what you are doing,

Also i know with my old cats we use to get on the floor and start to rub it back and fourth across the floor and wait until they are ready to pounce then push and accross the floor and see if they start to eat it.

Hopes this helps

Answer 11

Each day give them a little less wet food to slowly wean them off it. Always have plenty of dry food available. Eventually, if they're still hungry, they will begin to eat the dry food.